The national industrial court in
Abuja has given an order restraining Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police
(IGP), from arresting Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), over
charges filed against him by the federal government.
The court gave the judgement on
Monday in a suit filed by Peter Abang, a claimant.
The suit marked NICN/ABJ/07/2019,
has Danladi Umar, Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) chairman, National Judicial
Commission (NJC), Federal Judicial Service Commission and the senate president
as defendants.
The court also granted Abang’s
prayer seeking to restrain Umar from going ahead to hear the case against the
CJN pending the determination of the motion on notice.
“In view of the imminent danger
of having res in this suit being destroyed before the hearing of the motion on
notice for interlocutory injunction and the affidavit evidence before the
court, I am satisfied that the applicant in this case has made out a case for
the court’s intervention to prevent and preserve the res from dissipation,” the
court held.
“In view of the importance of the
constitutional issues involved in this matter regarding the threat to the
position of the number one judicial officer of the country.”
The court also gave a temporal
injunction ordering the defendants not to force Onnoghen from vacating his
office.
The development comes hours after
a federal high court in Abuja stopped the plan to arraign Onnoghen at the
tribunal.
The CJN was supposed be arraigned
at the tribunal on Monday.
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